My daily driver remains my quad G5, and my regular laptop is this iBook G4/1.33 (12") I'm typing this in.
I picked up a really nice Luxo 1GHz (15" USB 2.0) that I restored and I've been using that as my backup workstation for a few months because it's quiet, it's reasonably compact, it's really cute and people love it.
However, the iBook runs rings around it. Even though the Luxo has a 167MHz FSB compared to the iBook's 133, the iBook has both a 33% faster CPU and 100% more cache (512MB compared to 256MB). I can't do much about the cache, but I'm strongly considering overclocking it to 1.25GHz, since that seems to be pretty stable based on
http://www.ethernetworks.de/imac_g4_usb2_overclocking.html
Anyone done this on an iMac G4? How easy is it to work with those small resistors? I'm not great with soldering, just simple tasks.
I picked up a really nice Luxo 1GHz (15" USB 2.0) that I restored and I've been using that as my backup workstation for a few months because it's quiet, it's reasonably compact, it's really cute and people love it.
However, the iBook runs rings around it. Even though the Luxo has a 167MHz FSB compared to the iBook's 133, the iBook has both a 33% faster CPU and 100% more cache (512MB compared to 256MB). I can't do much about the cache, but I'm strongly considering overclocking it to 1.25GHz, since that seems to be pretty stable based on
http://www.ethernetworks.de/imac_g4_usb2_overclocking.html
Anyone done this on an iMac G4? How easy is it to work with those small resistors? I'm not great with soldering, just simple tasks.